"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters."
Daniel Webster

Friday, August 21, 2009

Immigrants and Violence

Former police officer and sociologist Peter Moskos points to the latest issue of the journal Homicide, where a number of studies indicate that places with lots of immigrants actually have less violence than those with fewer immigrants.